Peter Stuge peter@stuge.se wrote:
On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 12:28:23AM +0200, Rasmus Wiman wrote:
when I can afford it, I will buy a new MB with integrated vga, probably the one I think stands the best chance of getting supported. Right now I think that would mean NVidia or VIA, but I know rather little about it.
Aha! I think there is a slight misunderstanding.
"Integrated" graphics are not really any different from discrete graphics as far as LB is concerned. Neither better nor worse.
Sounds good. I was thinking that memory initalisation might be somehow diferent when the graphics hardware wants some of the memory.
There are two graphics chips supported natively in LB, they are the ATI Rage XL and the Trident Blade3d. I've only heard the former confirmed working.
Didn't even know LB has that kind of support for any graphics chip. I only knew about the CONFIG_PCI_ROM_RUN and (if needed ) extracting the vga bios from the stock bios approach. By the way, at least Rage XL (with its own memory) seems pretty common on server mainboards.Is it a coincidence that just that chip is supported?
But my main motivation is that if there was a MB with a "Works with linuxbios" sticker on it, and it didn't cost too much I'd buy it.
I'll say M57SLI.
That was my first thought too. Or another MCP55 card. Then I started wondering if I could help put that sticker on more cards. That's when I started wondering if the nforce 430 with built-in Geforce would be very different from the mcp55, or the k8m800 would be very different from the epia chipsets.
/Rasmus